taKen Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mindofthelinguist.woRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6116 days ago 176 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Dutch, French Studies: German, Icelandic
| Message 9 of 15 10 February 2010 at 4:41pm | IP Logged |
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Sweden WAS Norway's big brother :P
I wouldn't learn a language just because of its usefulness. This is more or less a question of taste. But anyhow, when you've learned one of the five mentioned you'll have no problems in acquiring the rest. It's more or less like learning variations on a theme.
Edited by taKen on 10 February 2010 at 4:42pm
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Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 10 of 15 10 February 2010 at 4:50pm | IP Logged |
taKen wrote:
I wouldn't learn a language just because of its usefulness. |
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The vast majority of language learners, however, would.
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taKen Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mindofthelinguist.woRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6116 days ago 176 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Dutch, French Studies: German, Icelandic
| Message 11 of 15 10 February 2010 at 6:39pm | IP Logged |
Ari wrote:
taKen wrote:
I wouldn't learn a language just because of its usefulness. |
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The vast majority of language learners, however, would. |
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Great!
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tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5452 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 12 of 15 10 February 2010 at 7:00pm | IP Logged |
taKen wrote:
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Sweden WAS Norway's big brother :P |
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Sweden still is. Norway is Sweden's rich, successfull, self-confident, and possibly annoying, little brother.
Edited by tractor on 10 February 2010 at 7:35pm
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taKen Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mindofthelinguist.woRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6116 days ago 176 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Dutch, French Studies: German, Icelandic
| Message 13 of 15 10 February 2010 at 7:29pm | IP Logged |
tractor wrote:
taKen wrote:
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Sweden WAS Norway's big brother :P |
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Sweden still is. Norway is Sweden's rich, successfull, self-confident, and possibly, annoying, little brother. |
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I beg to differ, but you're entitled to your own opinion.
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Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5820 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic
| Message 14 of 15 10 February 2010 at 7:58pm | IP Logged |
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After many random web browsing, and looking around for some scandinavian lanaguage learning resources (programs, audio tapes, sites...), it seemed to me that swedish is the most accessible out of the rest of the scandinavian family.
why do you think that is?
btw - seems like icelandic sources are pretty hard to find, and even more - faroese.
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It seems that vvay to me; I've really not had a problem finding all the Svvedish resources I need. There are an ok amount of Icelandic teaching material; Teach Yourself Icelandic, Colloquial Icelandc; I have copy of Beginner's Icelandic vvhich is pretty good so far.
Faroese is definitely a pain vvhen it comes to material...The only books I have on it are "Kaudervvelsch: Färöisch" vvhich is a nice little 150 page or so book, though one must read German to be able to access it. VV.B. Lockvvood's "An Introduction to Modern Faroese" is nice too, albeit only a reference grammar. There is actually a very modern book/CD set that is sold:
Faroese: A Language Course for Beginners
The things is, it's about $190...vvhich I unfortunately can't afford right novv :-P
Edited by Lindsay19 on 10 February 2010 at 8:01pm
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石安竹 Newbie United States Joined 6175 days ago 15 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin
| Message 15 of 15 26 February 2010 at 7:10pm | IP Logged |
I have had a hard time finding a good Norwegian study book with audio. I have seen much more material for both Danish and Swedish.
Would anyone have suggestions for good Norwegian resources?
And my decision to study Norwegian was definitely not influenced by any such reason as usefulness.
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